n.(名词)

1. 听众，观众，读者（群），旁听群众，围观的人
2. 觐见，谒见，晋见，进见
3. 听取，倾听
4. 接见，召见，会见
5. 爱好者，一批追随者
6. 【律】（在法庭上）自由陈述的权利

n.(名词)

1. [C]观众,听众 group of people who have gathered together to hear or watch sb/sth

Noun:

1. a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance;

   "the audience applauded"
   "someone in the audience began to cough"
   

2. the part of the general public interested in a source of information or entertainment;

   "every artist needs an audience"
   "the broadcast reached an audience of millions"
   

3. an opportunity to state your case and be heard;

   "they condemned him without a hearing"
   "he saw that he had lost his audience"
   

4. a conference (usually with someone important);

   "he had a consultation with the judge"
   "he requested an audience with the king"
   

1.观众；听众
Theaudience at a play, concert, film, or public meeting is the group of people watching or listening to it.

e.g. The entireaudience broke into loud applause...
全场观众爆发出热烈的掌声。
e.g. He was speaking to anaudience of students at the Institute for International Affairs.
他在国际事务学院给学生们作演讲。

2.（电视或广播节目的）观众，听众
Theaudience for a television or radio programme consists of all the people who watch or listen to it.

e.g. The concert will be relayed to a worldwide televisionaudience estimated at one thousand million.
这场音乐会将向全球约10亿电视观众转播。

3.读者
Theaudience of a writer or artist is the people who read their books or look at their work.

e.g. Say's writings reached a wideaudience during his lifetime...
在塞伊有生之年，他的作品拥有大量的读者。
e.g. She began to find a receptiveaudience for her work.
她开始为作品寻找知音。

4.（与要人的）接见，会见，拜见
If you have anaudience with someone important, you have a formal meeting with them.

e.g. The Prime Minister will seek anaudience with the Queen later this morning.
今天上午晚些时候首相将会觐见女王陛下。

1. 对象：国内外的教育研究者普遍认为,一个规范的学习目标应该包括四个要素:对象(audience)、行为(behaviour)、条件(condition)和标准 (degree),简称ABCD法.

1. The audience has expressed its approval.
   观众已经认可。
2. The audiences are requested to be their seats by 7：25.
   要求观众在7：25入座。
3. Somewhere in the audience an old woman's voice began plaintive wail.
   观众席里,一位老太太伤心地哭起来。
4. His book reached an even wider audience when it was filmed for television.
   他的书拍成电视以后,使读者范围扩大到观众了。
5. They request an audience with the Queen.
   他们请求谒见女皇。
6. Each style or form has its own audience.
   每一种格调或形式各有其拥护者。
7. The representatives were given an audience at the meeting.
   会议上给了代表们发表意见的机会。
8. The audience isn't thinking, it's yelling its head off.
   观众不假思索,嘶声叫喊。
9. The audience as mined, their claim's broader than race.
   观众形形色色,他们的要求千奇百怪。
10. She felt nervous at having to sing before such a large audience.
    为这么多听众演唱,她感到很紧张。

• List to your tribunes. audience! peace, I say.

  出自：Coriolanus,Shakespeare

• Thou in his audience shouldst thereof discourse.

  出自：H. F. Cary

• These teachers easily found attentive audience.

  出自：Ld Macaulay

The audience was no less than five thousand.

听众有五千人之多。

Someone in the audience began to laugh.

观众中有人开始笑起来。

The concert drew a large audience.

音乐会吸引了大量的观众。

The article was put out in a national magazine to reach a larger audience.

为了能影响更多的读者,文章被登发在一份国家级杂志上。

The audience lapped up his monologue.

听众倾听他的独白。

His enrapt audience seemed to hang on every word he said.

那如醉如痴的听众似乎对他所说的每一个字都凝神倾听。

Each style or form has its own audience.

每一种格调或形式各有其拥护者。

an audience with the Pope

觐见教皇

The target audience for this advertisement was mainly teenagers.

这个广告的对象主要是十几岁的青少年观众。

His book reached an even wider audience when it was made into a movie.

他的书被搬上银幕后赢得了更广大的观众。

TV'/cinema'/movie audiences

电视 / 电影院 / 电影观众

The audience was'/were clapping for 10 minutes.

观众鼓掌10分钟。

an audience of 10 000

1万名观众

The debate was televised in front of a live audience .

这场辩论当着现场观众的面进行电视转播。

An audience of millions watched the wedding on TV.

几百万观众在电视上观看了婚礼。

The Prime Minister will seek an audience with the Queen later this morning.

今天上午晚些时候首相将会觐见女王陛下。

He was speaking to an audience of students at the Institute for International Affairs.

他在国际事务学院给学生们作演讲。

The concert will be relayed to a worldwide television audience estimated at one thousand million.

这场音乐会将向全球约10亿电视观众转播。

Say's writings reached a wide audience during his lifetime...

在塞伊有生之年，他的作品拥有大量的读者。

She began to find a receptive audience for her work.

她开始为作品寻找知音。

The entire audience broke into loud applause...

全场观众爆发出热烈的掌声。

The show is drawing but a meagre audience.

看演出的观众寥寥无几.

The audience was fascinated by their superb performance.

他们的精彩表演使观众看得入了迷.

The audience was captivated by her performance.

观众们被她的表演吸引住了.

The cleverly designed speech lashed the audience into a frenzy.

这篇精心设计的演说煽动听众使他们发狂.

The audience punctuated his speech by outbursts of applause.

听众不时以阵阵掌声打断他的讲话.

A big audience filled the hall.

众多观众济济一堂.

The angry audience shouted the speaker down.

愤怒的听众大声喊使讲话者闭口不语.

The audience rose bodily.

听众全体站了起来.

The audience took fire at his words.

观众听了他的话群情激昂.

The audience is all concentrating with rapt attention on taking notes.

人们都在全神贯注地记笔记.

He bowed to the thunder of applause from the audience.

他鞠躬答谢观众席上发出的雷鸣般的掌声.

The audience cried the speaker down as soon as he started on a third digression.

当发言人第三次扯到题外去时听众发出喊声,使他讲不下去.

The audience were mostly adolescents.

听众几乎都是年轻人.

• ☆ 14世纪晚期进入英语，直接源自古法语的audience；最初源自拉丁语的audentia，意为听。